condensed discuss document expanded export feedback print share remove reset document_white enquire_white export_white report_white

Cenotaph record

James Crichton Morgan

Lay a poppy
Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 23), Page: 9 - No known copyright restrictions

Nominal Roll Vol 2 (Roll 23), Page: 9 - No known copyright restrictions

Identity

About

Contribute ›
  • Title
  • Forenames
    James Crichton AWMM
  • Surname
    Morgan AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 13/3052 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion

Civilian life

About birth

Contribute ›
  • Birth
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    • Mrs W.G. Morgan (mother), Rifle Range, Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
    • Mrs Isabel Morgan (mother), Rifle Range, Penrose, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status

Service

Wars and conflicts

Contribute ›
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 13/3052 AWMM
  • Military service
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

Contribute ›

Training and Enlistment

Contribute ›

Embarkations

Contribute ›

Prisoner of war

Contribute ›
  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

Contribute ›
  • Medical notes
    Kicked by a horse in Egypt and also contracted Malaria. See biography field Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - Research via online military personnel records; NZ Archives

Last known rank

Contribute ›
  • Last rank

Biographical information

Biographical information

Contribute ›
    • No mention of Reinforcement number, SuppNom: Ex 10th Reinforcements. AWMM
    • James father Sergeant Major William John MORGAN was an NCO who was caretaker at Penrose Rifle Range for many years. He had his own interesting story. See https://flic.kr/p/x5g7w5 Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - My own research
    • Attestation: 17 Nov 1915. Embarked 1 Sept 1916 on board Australian transport ship “Ascanius” to NZ and discharged 28 Nov. 1916 due to injury (“[illegible word] detachment of left eye caused by kick from a horse in Egypt”). Medical transfer certificate states he had acute metastatic (not traumatic) choroiditis – with opacities in vitreous. Now rapidly subsiding.

      On Territorial reserve forces from 29 Nov 1916 to 12 July 1917.

      Re enlisted 13 July 1917 until suffered malaria in Cairo and sent to hospital 13 October 1918 and sent home via Suez 25 December 1918. Fully discharged 20 March 1919. Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - Research via online military personnel records; NZ Archives
Read more

Death

About death

Contribute ›
  • Death
    11 February 1974 Public Source
  • Date of death
    11 February 1974 Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - ancestry.co.uk; NZ Cemetery records 1800-2007; slide 5491
  • Age at death
    76 Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - ancestry.co.uk; NZ Cemetery records 1800-2007; slide 5491
  • Place of death
    Auckland, New Zealand Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - ancestry.co.uk; NZ Cemetery records 1800-2007; slide 5491
  • Cause of death
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
  • Cemetery name
    Mangere Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand Public - Sarndra - Researcher - 15 August 2015 - ancestry.co.uk; NZ Cemetery records 1800-2007; slide 5491
  • Grave reference
  • Obituary
  • Memorial name
  • Memorial reference

Memorials

Memorial

Contribute ›
  • Memorial name
    Onehunga Methodist Circuit 1915 AWMM

Roll of Honour

Remember James Crichton Morgan by laying a poppy.

Leave a note

Leave a tribute or memory of James Crichton Morgan

Leave a note

Contribute ›

Sources

Sources

Contribute ›
  • External links
    Military personnel file
    https://collections.archives.govt.nz/en-NZ/web/arena/search#/entity/aims-archive/R21377252
    Further Reference
  • References
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      23: 9 AWMM
    • New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1918). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume III. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer. AWMM
      74: 3 AWMM
    • The horse marines : a chronicle of their voyage on H.M.N.Z.T.98 T.S.S. Tofua, Nov. 13 to Dec. 21, 1917. Editor, Tpr. J.A. Kyd; sub-editor, Sgt. G.B. Young. AWMM

Contributors

Command item
Command item
Add new record Refresh
DateFirst namesLocationRelationshipContact
15 August 2015SarndraAuckland, New ZealandResearcher

The development of the Online Cenotaph is an ongoing process; updates, new images and records are added weekly. In some cases, records have yet to be confirmed by Museum staff, and there could be mistakes or omissions in the information provided.

Creative Commons LicenseOnline Cenotaph Data by Auckland War Memorial Museum is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.